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PKK released Turkish MP Huseyin Aygun - UPDATED

PKK released Turkish MP Huseyin Aygun - <font color=red>UPDATED</font>

14 August 2012 20:37 (UTC +04:00)

Huseyin Aygun, from the main opposition Republican Peopleâ€™s Party, was freed on Tuesday after being abducted on Sunday evening at a roadblock between the town of Ovacik and the city of Tunceli.

Governor Mustafa Taskesen told NTV that the politician was now with military police after the fighters brought him through the mountains and left him outside Ovacik in the Tunceli province.

"He is in good health and expected to be in Tunceli [city] after judicial procedures are concluded," Governor Mustafa Taskesen told NTV.

Local security forces told the AFP news agency that Aygun, 42, had refused to testify at a nearby police station and said he wanted to go to Tunceli.

Aygun appeared healthy as he faced reporters on Tuesday night.

"My two-day adventure in the mountains ended tonight. The people who carried this out said they were doing it to spread their political message," he said.

"They said they chose this path to resolve the Kurdish conflict and stop the bloodshed ... there was nothing life-threatening about this, it was a way of making a political statement."

Aygun was elected to the parliament to represent Tunceli, where he worked as a lawyer for 14 years.

According to his website, his work focuses on human rights abuses, such as the forcible evacuations of Kurdish villages to deny support to the PKK in rural areas, as well as torture cases.

Aygun has in the past called on the PKK to abandon their violent campaign.